What does ingest mean?
Definitions for ingest
ɪnˈdʒɛstin·gest
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Princeton's WordNet
consume, ingest, take in, take, haveverb
serve oneself to, or consume regularly
"Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
absorb, assimilate, ingest, take inverb
take up mentally
"he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"
GCIDE
Ingestverb
To take into the body by any means, as by inhalation, injection, absorption, as well as through the mouth.
Wiktionary
ingestverb
To take into the body, as for digestion.
Etymology: From ingerere
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To INGESTverb
To throw into the stomach.
Etymology: ingestus, Lat.
Nor will we affirm that iron, ingested, receiveth in the belly of the osteridge no alteration. Thomas Browne, Vulg. Errours.
Some the long funnel's curious mouth extend,
Through which ingested meats with ease descend. Richard Blackmore.
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ingest
Ingest means to consume or take in a substance, typically food or drink, into the body through the mouth. It can also refer to the absorption and processing of information or data.
Webster Dictionary
Ingestverb
to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal
Etymology: [L. ingenium, p. p. of ingerere to put in; pref. in- in + gerere to bear.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Ingest
in-jest′, v.t. to throw into the stomach.—n.pl. Ingest′a, substances introduced into an organic body.—n. Ingest′ion:—opp. to Egestion.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ingest in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ingest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of ingest in a Sentence
That means I will never be able to ingest anything through my mouth ever again, not even water.
From what I’ve been told nandrolone is high … pig offal has high concentrations of nandrolone. This food truck that I happened to go to that night – I’ve eaten there a lot before – and this food truck serves pig offal as part of their menu and I think I happened to ingest this hormone and 10 hours later, at the peak of when it’s supposed to be in your body and your digesting it, I happened to get tested and honestly it’s a very unlucky series of events, i’m kinda blown away by what happened and I can't believe I’m going through this as a clean athlete.
Imagine trying to ingest a gallon of water after a race, it’s pretty much impossible, at least in the timeframe we would be able to rehydrate someone intravenously.
Staph is found on the hands and can cause food-borne infection by producing a toxin outside the body. Then you can ingest the toxin and get sick.
The American renaissance begins with the unified revolutionary act of turning off and smashing the television, rejecting Hollywood on all fronts and refusing to intellectually ingest the toxic force feed of the establishment minority’s matrix narrative.
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